Morning recap

Police have charged two people in connection with the Monday morning stabbing death of a 43-year-old city woman in downtown Schenectady, authorities said.

The murder trial of one of the teens charged in the stabbing death of an Albany High student began Monday. Prosecutors said that the suspect, Dhoruba Shuaib, took, and passed, the exam to become an Albany police officer the morning of the attack. A cell phone video of the attack was also shown to the jury.

The Albany County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday that it and county department of Social Services investigators had arrested and charged eight people, including the owner of three restaurants, with welfare fraud amounting to more than $41,000.

Opening statements will he heard Tuesday in the burglary trial of a 60-year-old man who spent almost 37 years behind bars for the 1973 killing of a Rensselaer nightclub owner.